Journal of emerging economies and policy (Online), cilt.8, sa.2, ss.57-66, 2023 (Hakemli Dergi)
The concepts of sovereignty and democracy have been used frequently in the literature of law and political science to explain many things. However, the use of these concepts together as a phrase has not been very common. The concept of sovereign democracy was first mentioned in 2006 by Vladislav Surkov, who held various bureaucratic positions in the Russian Federation. Of course, the legal and political implications of this discourse are as important as its historicity. As a matter of fact, what the concept of "sovereign democracy" encompasses and what it is used to explain aims to guide the research questions of this study. Especially in the Putin era, Russia, which has turned its foreign policy direction not to the West but to Eurasia, a region defined as Eurasia and rooted in the geography of the Empire and the Soviets, will try to legitimize its strategy with the discourse of sovereign democracy. This study aims to examine on the basis of law and politics how the discourse of sovereign democracy is used to construct a political plane within the framework of the institutionalization of the state-centered system in Russian history.